Quotes About Sanitation

Today," she said, "we're going to learn about the history of the toilet bowl.

Cleanliness, particularly personal cleanliness, was an assertion against madness. It was a declaration of control.

We need to always be vigilant on the sanitary issues.

Rules about public sanitation are a simple and familiar example. Without them, a city can't be a healthy place to live; but these rules don't just happen. The rules for a city are different from the ones for a village, but as a village slowly gets bigger, a city may be stuck with the rules of the village.

In villages across the developing world, governments have provided reasonable enough latrines that have again and again been turned into storage spaces or simply abandoned. In India alone, millions of government-funded latrines have become goat-sheds. Some had been built near kitchens, a taboo in Indian households.

Sanitation and cleanliness are among the humblest of the civic virtues, and it is easy to underestimate their significance.

When I tell a foreign audience that 90 per cent of Indian women have no access to sanitary napkin, there is a visible disbelief. But there is hardly a ripple when I say the same thing to an Indian crowd.

Water and sanitation has not had the same kind of champion that global health, and even education, have had.

Federal, municipal, and state courts closed. Giant placards everywhere warned the public to avoid crowds and use handkerchiefs when sneezing or coughing. Other placards read "Spitting equals death." People who spat on the street were arrested—sixty in a single day.

Practice good personal hygiene. Wash your hands before you eat. Be aware of good clean water and food sources.

Mahatma Gandhi never compromised on cleanliness. He gave us freedom. We should give him a clean India.

An engineer is someone who washes his hands before going to the toilet.

When an editor once tried to kill herself by diving in front of a subway train, Edna Chase was pained by her vulgarity. If a Vogue editor was forced to resort to suicide, she should have enough sense to swallow sleeping powders instead of leaving messes for the city sanitation department.

He spun out enough toilet paper to vandalize a house and carefully cleaned the seat.

There probably was a time when the idea of having a toilet inside a house was repulsive.

Hand washing is the first basic step towards achieving any millennium goals for development. It saves lives.

Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.

Soap is soap.

Dirt is matter out of place

If he thought using napkins to clean your hands and face was wasteful, she couldn't help but wonder what he would think of toilet paper.

avoiding health code restrictions about animals in food service areas.

We are soon to have everywhere," wrote one futurist, "smoke annihilators, dust absorbers, ozonators, sterilizers of water, air, food, and clothing, and accident preventers on streets, elevated roads, and subways.

Cleanliness becomes more important when godliness is unlikely.

I won't eat in a restaurant with filthy bathrooms," Bourdain warned. "They let you see the bathrooms. If the restaurant can't be bothered to replace the puck in the urinal or keep the toilets and floors clean, then just imagine what their refrigeration and work spaces look like.")